This is the information page about the shipwreck Pacific (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 55.232 N,1 30.502 E (52.7959833, 1.6965)

 

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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English 🇬🇧, as they are prepared by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) based on data from UKHO and the hydrographic services of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, among others. They include the known details of the wreck and the comments of the cartographers who have checked the position and condition of the wreck over time.

 

1. Aberhill
2. Actuosity (possibly)
3. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
4. Algarve
5. Alice taylor
6. Alster
7. Alston
8. Artemisia
9. Asteria
10. Barrhill
11. Bertha
12. Birtley
13. Boulderpool (after part)
14. Boulderpool (fwd part)
15. British triumph
16. Camilla weston
17. Cantabria (probably)
18. Cardanel
19. Clan morrison
20. Clansman (possibly)
21. Continental (possibly)
22. Corchester
23. Corduff
24. Courier (probably)
25. Duncarron
26. Efos
27. Eikhaug
28. Empress
29. Ems
30. Ethel
31. Friesland
32. Fulgens
33. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
34. Gardenia
35. Georgia (for'd part)
36. Georgia (stern section)
37. Glen derry (probably)
38. Granta
39. Hauxley (possibly)
40. Hms agate
41. Hms arley
42. Hms caroline moller
43. Hms cloughton wyke
44. Hms dhoon (probably)
45. Hms dungeness
46. Hms force
47. Hms francolin
48. Hms kylemore
49. Hms tonbridge
50. Hms vortigern
51. Hms washington (probably)
52. Hms william stephen
53. Hmsm c 11
54. Homefire
55. I t l anna b
56. Ilse
57. Jessie maersk
58. Jevington court
59. Kenton
60. Keymun
61. King egbert
62. Lanterna (probably)
63. Leelite
64. Londoner (probably)
65. Marden
66. Marsworth
67. Minorca
68. Murdoch (probably)
69. Norman queen
70. Oakgrove
71. Ole bull
72. Osprey
73. Ottar jarl
74. Otter
75. Oxshott (possibly)
76. Pacific (possibly)
77. Pacific (possibly)
78. Pegrix
79. Pontfield (forepart)
80. Prima
81. Regain
82. Rimac
83. Rose marie
84. Salvus ii
85. Seagull
86. Seaham
87. Sheaf water
88. Sitona
89. St mark
90. Tayjack 1 (part of)
91. Tayjack 1 (part of)
92. Teddington
93. Thursonian
94. Trelissick
95. Tyneford
96. Upminster
97. Varoy
98. Viola (possibly)
99. Walkure
100. War valley
101. Welholme (possibly)
102. Western mist (possibly)
103. Westland
104. Whintown (possibly)
105. Winhill or whinhill
106. Xanthe

 

Name: PACIFIC (POSSIBLY)

Length 98.8 meter, width: 13.4 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 2816 ton
Load: coal

Cause: 8.2.43 left sunderland for london in convoy which became scattered in bad weather on 8.2.43. pacific and two other ships disappeared.

Year of registration: 1945

Water depth above wreck: 18 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1945, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H0243/39 29.11.45 UNKNOWN LOCATED 350.25 DEG 6.10M FROM HAPPISBURGH LTHO. THOUGHT TO BE PACIFIC. (CINC NORE, 28.11.45) H0243/39 7.2.46 INS AS DW.

- NM 448/46 4.3.46 G CON WK BUOY, GPFL(3)G 10 SEC CLOSE NE. (THNM 25/46).

- NM 775/46. 27.7.48 SWEPT CLEAR 31 FT, FOUL 32 FT IN 66 FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 27.7.48). 27.6.49 EXAM'D IN 525511N, 013034E. OROPESA SWEEP AFTER DISPERSAL CLEAR 48 FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 51 IN GEN DEPTH 55 FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 26.6.49). AMEND TO WK 8FMS.

- NM 1599/49. 14.3.73 AMEND TO WK 14MTRS. NC 106. 29.11.77 AMEND TO SW 14MTRS. NE 106. H1952/80 26.1.83 EXAM'D 14.7.82 IN 525513N, 013037E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 15.6 IN GEN DEPTHS 17.5 TO 18.5MTRS. SCOUR 1MTR DEEP. DCS3 HT 1MTR, LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 40MTRS. LYING N/S, BROKEN UP AND APPARENTLY SMALL. (SOISS, HI 22). BR STD. SEP 2015/000041896 22.5.15 EXAM'D 18.10.14 IN 5255.232N, 0130.502E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 17.02MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 1MTR, EXTENDS 25MTRS TOWARDS 130 DEGREES. LENGTH 38MTRS, WIDTH 30MTRS, HT 0.8MTRS. LIES 000/180 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. BROKEN UP. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY HI1427). AMEND DW 17.0MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN UP WRECKAGE

Position: 52 55.232 N,1 30.502 E

 

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